Who Are Your Past Circuit Overseers? It's a small world..

Haha, By the Book Cook.

Blondie, I remember Lyman, wow Balzer is WAY back there. You been around as long as me I guess!

Anybody remember Daryl Haircut Holmen?  A real putz; he would offer to cut the brothers hair before CA parts if he thought it was too long.

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A few Circuit Overseers from the U.S. over the past 30 years or so:

• Dave Mraz
• Lyman Pinard
• Joshua Steelman
• Bob Coleman
• Chuck Waller
• Bob Sallee
• Arnold Erickson
• Charles Johnson
• Kevin Wright
• Henry Bennett
• Jerome Henry
• Lawrence Fix

Some old-timers: Angelo Catanzaro, Charles Homolka, Ferd Crouse, John Mansavage, Gene Barnett, Floyd Addams

Catanzaro...had him.  Gene Barnett- married to someone I know

here's one, this guy was aiming for the top and made such a name that he's on the running for the gubberning body.

-->Mario Beltrami, currently a district overbeer.

zealot, company man.

Some more Brits..

1] eccentrics

Ken Wildig, John Blaney, Richard Carter, Albert Broad, Richard Cullen

2] Dull Company Men

Dennis Dutton, Mike Seidler, ..others have faded from memory

3]Old fashioned hardliners

Ted Wright, - Ernie Beaver, Clifford Hensman

I would love any info on one last name of Krifassi..could be spelled different.Please pm me if you know ANYTHING about him.Thanks in advance.New England area.USA

BluesBrother

I remember John Blaney (just), he became a DO according to my mother.  Don't know RICHARD Carter but well remember David Carter of cream cakes fame.  He hailed from Mansfield in Nottinghamshire originally I believe.  Albert Broad stayed with us about 1956 ish, he had an old Austin 7 at the time.

I also remember Cullen, Dutton and Seidler.  I think Mike Seidler had a friend called Godfrey Bint who became a missionary in Africa.  He was in the Yearbook a couple of years or so ago.

George

Anyone remember Dave Crispin? I was a kid when he was around always liked him but that was from a child's point of view.

St George.....Yes, it was David Carter that I meant. He was the one who turned his Circuit Assembly items into hilarious audience discussions with "shout outs" from the audience. His comedy timing was superb..

I only spoke to him once off stage and he seemed a totally different person to his on stage persona.

Minimus said: "Don Culp ALWAYS had young boys around him. He often would give them back rubs. A few elders talked to him about it when he was an elder. Jim Hossel was his best friend."

Must be a different Don Culp.  This guy looks just like Steve Martin.  He's been mistaken for him on numerous occasion.  He never had you boys around him and was a solid family man.  I have to admit he is one of the genuine good guys.  Although he totaly beleive it all he never the less is a great guy.

Same guy. don was an ok guy, very sharp. But he was always rubbing young boy's backs and shoulders. It was widely talked about when he was an elder.

I'm willing to bet that few-to-none of these guys would show up on a google search; a scathing tesatment to their lives' contribution to humanity. 

There was a Donald Culp who is the ex-brother-in-law of Mark Palo; Culp has progressed on to being a CO and now a DO.  Same guy?

same guy,,,, DO now? Impressive!

From Canada, here's a few I can remember:

• Brother Rosem
• Don Rairie (scumbag who screwed ALOT of brothers out of ALOT of money with his 'Trimline' business)
• Larry Ericson (another asshole who deleted more elders in Southern Ontario than all other CO's combined.  He gave them all an ultimatum if they worked shiftwork: quit the job, or get deleted as an elder)
• Zanawich

I was in the Pittsburgh area, only for a short time (98-07). Here is all the CO's I had:

Fred Lanier (Laneer?) - Big fellow, rather friendly. My bible study conductor brought him over my house before I was baptized. 

Norman Mosher (Moser?) - Older widow, used to be a school teacher. He instructed my pioneer school. Very friendly and accessible.

Richard Leighton - This guy really liked to make life miserable. I was a MS during his visits. Would really tell everybody off, complain about how lazy they were, ect. He was really stuck in a 50s mentality, subjection of women, etc. Never really talked to him much other than going out in service a few times. His talks would mainly complain that things "used to be better." Lots of stories about how out there this guy was.

Favorite quote during a public talk, used to tell us how close we are to "the end":

"They used to make school buildings tall, and they were cheap to heat, and kids got lots up exercise going up and down the stairs. Now they make school buildings long, and kids don't get enough exercise, and they are more expensive to heat."

I also remember him reading a poem that was probably written back in the early 1980s. It complained that "things are different from the good ol' days." One specific line:

"I remember when a rabbit was a rabbit, and not a car"

This was before the VW rabbit was reissued a few years back. Somehow he needed to complain about the name of the car 20 years after it had stopped being made.

Of course he also gave that infamous CO talk about people having sex with animals (05, 06?). 

I also remember John Crispin was the DO for a while. I believe he was from California. There was another DO, guy was bald, told terrible jokes (including a cheap pun that related to his name somehow). Can't remember him...

aquagirl, check you pm!

I don't really remember many (if any) of the D.O's or C.O.'s - but when someone mentioned 'Sealey' and 'Brandt', I do seem to remember these names.

I believe Brandt (didn't ever know their first names, it was always 'brother') was the D.O way back in the late 60's here in Texas.

Sealey - was a C.O. about the same time - didn't they have numbers for the circuits... like Circuit 8 - or somesuch?

There were a few other names mentioned in this thread that I've either heard before - or the fellas served time in this area.

It was always interesting when they 'moved' the fellas around. I could never figure out if it was because they were getting too comfortable in one area, or had done something (or not done something) to warrant the move.

Of course... this is coming from someone who never amounted to anything more than a 'publisher', and always tried to keep a low profile, not drawing any undue attention to myself.

Regards,

Jim TX